Westminstenders: Magical Thinking

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This week has seen reports of the government editing footage of Johnson to avoid embarrassing questions about the early government response.

We've been asked to accept that the rules were different to what we were told to excuse the law breaking behaviour of a senior government advisor. As Johnson said he was being a responsible father (as if Johnson knows what this is) and it wasn't as if he was visiting a lover (this Johnson would know all about). Let's be honest Johnson is the master of brazening out controversy.

We also have the ERG complaining they were lied to by Gove about the new Withdrawal Agreement and the border in the Irish Sea which surprises precisely no one else.

They appear to be a little upset by the Cummings debarkable too.

Not only that, he took his wife and kid with him to see if it was safe to drive.....

For God's sake someone ASK HIM ABOUT MARY'S ARTICLE!!

"is the truth that the Prime Minister cannot do his job without you?"

The press are LOVING this! DC looks like he might cry/lose his shit.

Fascinating that BJ knew about it and didn't give a monkeys until it became public on Friday.

Absolute twats, the lot of them. He must go!!

Just as an aside, we can now hear Cummings communicates and how Boris waffles on. So, when they talk, how the hell long do their conversations ramble on for? 😂

Yes Piggy - somebody needs to ask about the article!!!

Has anyone looked at the timing of the apparently reconstructed 'exceptional circumstances'? Might they have conveniently been added on after he left London for Durham? Retroactive justification is always handy....

How does that guidance say what they keep saying it does??

So the child who couldn't cope with an 80 mile round trip without needing the loo could apparently cope with a 260 mile journey without once needing the loo

Apparently the academics who are holding him responsible for making the lockdown harder to maintain were "confused" by false stories spread about in the press.

'um, um' hang on, while I remember the script...

Spade. Dig. Deeper...

Ooh I’m surprised they are giving him such a hard time
Yy ask him about Mary’s article & why if she wasn’t particularly ill did he fuck off to Durham & why didn’t they have anyone to call on to help in London ffs

The rules said "stay at home". They didn't say "just sit there".

Erm...

Loving all the journos slating him for blaming the media when it's his actions that have put the government in that position.

He's so arrogant.

Involved in 'crucial questions' and 'crucial decisions' (but clever enough to butter up Johnson "PM's time is the most valuable commodity in the world"... 🤢🤢).

Essentially, I am a very very very important person and you must stop bothering me with these mundane and unimportant details. I am not going away as I am so very very very important. You must all now go away. Shoo.

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Daily Mail says readers in same situation as Cummings "feel like mugs".

Daily Mail ;Did you offer to resign?
DC No I have not offered to resign.
Daily Mail: Did you ever consider it?
DC No I have not considered it

There is a line of journalists stood with crossed arms looking very fucked off (remember he also kept them all waiting 30 mins) asking questions... The body language is remarkable.

Who is this 'expert medical advice'...?

Whizz down the road ??!!

And this is the man going to lead us through leaving the EU. God. We're so screwed.

You are right, I don't feel well. Where is a nice beauty spot we should drive to on your birthday to see if I can drive?

So on the one hand they had symptoms and were worried about being able to look after their kid, but on the other, MW was just spewing and they didn't know whether she had CV, so it was OK.

This is a complete car crash.

No other way to get back to London.

...Except empty trains and a govt car sent to collect you.

He stopped for his child to have a loo break and they 'played in the woods'? then took another short drive to see if his eyesight was up to driving?
Excellent, he is losing the timeline now.
'Were the public stupid to follow the rules to the letter?'

he is convinced that Govt couldn't function without him.
Interesting that he 'considers what to tell BJ on a daily basis'.

So he's doubling down on blaming the media